This book comes from the bottom of the author's heart, John Piper writes, and it presses a single question on the reader: what exactly is the gift the gospel gives?

He pleads with us to understand that God himself, as revealed in the death and resurrection of Christ, is the greatest and most important gift in the whole gospel - not forgiveness or heaven considered apart from him. The argument cuts against a gospel preached for its benefits, and it is here in Spanish for the Spanish-speaking church.